June 14, 2012 / Front Page

The Alabama Forestry Association and the Alabama Loggers Council recently announced that Grove Hill logger Ray Singleton of Ray Singleton Logging, Inc. has been selected as the 2012 Alabama Logger of the Year. More...

“We are saddened by the loss of one of own teachers,” Clarke County School Superintendent Woodie Pugh said at the start of his report Tuesday afternoon at the Clarke County Board of Education meeting. The board approved a resolution More...

Jackson Police are investigating two burglaries, one in which a number of jewelry items were taken and the other in which a one-ton air conditioning unit was reported stolen. Officer Francis Fleming responded to a call June 9, around 1:18 a.m., More...

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Mr. and Mrs. Willard Pugh of Tallahatta Springs will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary at a reception Saturday, June 30 from 2:30 until 4:30 p.m. in the fellowship hall at Elam Baptist Church in Tallahatta Springs. More...

The family of Jamari Rashard Pugh would like to take this opportunity to express their sincere gratitude for your many acts of kindness extended to them during their time of bereavement. Thanks again to all of you and God Bless. More...

The Clarke-Washington Auburn Club will have a meeting/dinner Thursday, June 14 at the Jackson Community House. Mark Murphy will be the special guest. All fans, friends and family are invited to attend. RSVP: 251-331-1564 or 334-332-7537. More...

Mr. and Mrs. Milton Woods of Alabaster announce the engagement of their daughter, Ashley Woods, to Earl Lester, son of Denise Lester of Livingston and Earl Lester of Cleveland, Ohio. Miss Woods is a 2004 graduate of Thompson High School. More...

Early summer has many of us anxiously awaiting the first harvest of a vine ripe tomato from the plants we have cared for over the last several weeks in anticipation of that first fresh tomato sandwich. More...

A Marengo County man was rousted out of the bed early Tuesday morning by Grove Hill police officers and charged with burglary for throwing a concrete block through the window of a car parked at Grove Hill Memorial Hospital Monday night. Davonte More...

While most of the approximately 40 people who attended a public hearing regarding a proposed regional airport, a lone opponent was the most vocal and dominated the question and answer portion of the hearing Tuesday. More...

A new computer system helped the efficiency of the mapping and appraisal office of the Clarke County Revenue Commissioner’s office so much that Revenue Commissioner Terry Norris recommended that two clerical positions in the office be eliminate More...

The Clarke County Sheriff's Department's Criminal Investigation Unit on June 1 was called to a burglary of a camp house off of Lady's Landing Road south of Jackson where several items were taken. More...

John Edmund “Jack” Adams Jr. died Saturday, June 16 at his home in Grove Hill. He was 85. He was a longtime Grove Hill attorney, working in the law firm with his father, the late John Adams Sr. More...

Ruth Zimmerman Stoudenmier 82, of Pine Hill died June 7, 2012 at Thomasville Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center. She was born March 7, 1930 in Cedartown, Georgia. She was a member of the Pine Hill United Methodist Church. More...

Just in case you missed it, Stony Brook knocked off LSU in Baton Rogue this past weekend in the Super Regionals in college baseball. Playing LSU in Baton Rogue is as close to playing in a place where the home team always wins. More...

Clarke Prep School’s Kiley Dunagan was honored as the Pitcher of the Year in the AISA this past weekend. The junior hurler mowed down 240 batters, or an average of 10.89 batter per game and had an ERA of 0.56 to go with her 19 wins on the More...

The national debt is fast approaching $16 trillion dollars. Politicians and officeholders talk and argue about the debt but they do nothing about it. Indeed, it continues to skyrocket at an average of nearly $4 billion a day. The U.S. More...

The U.S. Constitution requires each state to redistrict their congressional districts every 10 years. That is why the U.S. Census is taken every decade. Each of the nation’s 435 seats in Congress are required to have the same number of people. More...